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Quiet Hopes for the New Year

By Robin Bates | Published: December 30, 2021

Merwin’s New Year poems ushers in the new year very quietly.

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Hope: Invisible before Us and Still Possible

By Robin Bates | Published: January 13, 2011

At the end of yesterday’s memorial service remembering those who died in the tragic Tucson shooting, the president of the University of Arizona read a poem by W. S. Merwin, recently named our poet laureate. I found a copy of it on the University’s Poetry Center website, along with the following wonderful quotation by Merwin […]

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